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AMC-8 ABC Carrier

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At noonish, the ABC carrier is down on the AMC-8 bird. Jones, WW1, et. al, carriers on the same bird up-and-running.
ABC no-answer-phones.

Dead uplink????
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XDS carrier back up....Starguide III's still down. ABC uplink in Jersey coughed-up a big loogie.
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Re: AMC-8 ABC Carrier

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The deadline for the ABCRN music services to switch to XDS was back in December. I thought the Radio Disney and ESPN services had already switched long before that. What was left besides the "contracted" services (e.g. MRN/PRN Nascar programs)?
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Re: AMC-8 ABC Carrier

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Tom Taggart wrote:The deadline for the ABCRN music services to switch to XDS was back in December. I thought the Radio Disney and ESPN services had already switched long before that. What was left besides the "contracted" services (e.g. MRN/PRN Nascar programs)?
That's it. Problem is, the outage took the ABCRN X-Digital Carrier AND the Starguide III carrier.
I may or may not know someone that knows someone that communicates that the previously-mentioned NASCAR programming will be running dual-thread at the beginning of 2009 and drop off of Starguide III in August.
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Re: AMC-8 ABC Carrier

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I heard --from ABC--later this spring on the Nascar feeds.
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